German students’ warm reception confirmed the Institute’s decision to return

Evidence

“It is amazing,” he wrote Lowenthal in February, “how deep and lasting an experience [of the Institut] was created in the minds of many European intellectuals up to 1933. This experience has not been discredited through the period of the Third Reich. It is now our duty to corroborate and deepen it in the future.” … Horkheimer’s lecturing virtuosity - Everett Hughes, who was a visiting professor in Frankfurt during those years, remembers him as the finest German speaker he had ever heard 8 - and his personal warmth in seminars quickly won him a sizable student following. Once established, Horkheimer and those who went with him never regretted having chosen the path of resettlement so few other emigres were to follow. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 848

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Adorno and Horkheimer returned to Germany expecting greater practical impact.; The Frankfurt School retained broad international scholarly esteem at its 1949 return — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 858; The Institute’s return to Frankfurt transformed it from isolated enclave to mainstream intellectual force. — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 872 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• The Frankfurt School retained broad international scholarly esteem at its 1949 return #corroborates (0.85) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 858
• The Frankfurt School’s estrangement persisted even after its physical return to Germany. #contradicts (0.80) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 890
• The Institute’s return to Frankfurt transformed it from isolated enclave to mainstream intellectual force. #expands (0.75) — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination, 872